Lynchings, or non-legal public executions of blacks, increased in the period after Reconstruction and the infamous Jim Crow laws enforced legal segregation and political subjugation. However, these accomplishments were soon erased, as Presidents Grant and Hayes removed federal troops from the South, leaving black Americans with little protection against Southern white racists who regained power through violence, intimidation, and economic control.
Constitution, black Americans were granted protection and were able to exercise the right to vote, the right to run for office, the right to establish public business, and the right to own property. Due to the federal military occupation in the South and the passing of the “Reconstruction Amendments” to the U.S. At the beginning of Reconstruction, a federally mandated rebuilding period enforced by President Andrew Johnson’s administration, black Americans made swift strides toward assimilating into American society. After Emancipation, Washington’s autobiography primarily details the issues of the Reconstruction Era. As a result, some slaves were freed before the war officially ended, and some were freed after the April 9th surrender.
Since most Southerners were hesitant to free their slaves, emancipation was actualized once the Union Army occupied the South. While the end of the Civil War in Appomattox, VA on Ap(and the Emancipation Proclamation before that) is often attributed as the official end of American slavery, Washington was most likely freed only when the Union Army passed through the plantation on which he lived. Washington’s autobiography begins with emancipation, or the freeing of slaves upon the Union Army’s victory over the Southern Confederates in Virginia in 1865.
As the title suggests, Washington’s autobiography is historically marked by the rise and establishment of former black slaves in American society.
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